Archive for September 26th, 2006
Operations, internet services, and how to think about them.
F So you’re thinking about everything down to the iron and the wire in order to do QA accurately?
PS Yes.
BF That’s something a lot of us don’t think about.
We think about a computer as a computer and a network as a network and
don’t want to worry about any of that.PS If you talk to my operations buddies, they will
tell you the way they think of the stack, too, goes all the way down to
the floor—to the electricity, to cooling, to bandwidth. We have to be
efficient at laying out the entire stack, repeatably, and verifying
that it’s built correctly.
The OSD looks cool and, presuming that it rips to a non-DRMd file format, could be a really neat way to deal with the current lack of a content-creation method in the Apple iTV. Of course, I’d rather that it had a great interface or that Apple worked on the ripping side as well and then, either way, I could stick with one format/vendor.
If true (sorry to be the cynic) replacing the gasoline engine could be really wonderful… my concern is that it simply doesn’t sound like enough energy to go the distances (500 mi.) they claim. It would appear to require efficiencies far above current car technology… not that there’s anything wrong with capturing those, just hard to do. If they really have this kind of capacitor, it could make solar home or business sense as well.
Let’s hope it is for real.
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